netdev - Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! (2.6.18.2 plus hacks)

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Message-ID: <20070104085014.GA2500@ff.dom.local>
Date:	Thu, 4 Jan 2007 09:50:14 +0100
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>, greearb@...delatech.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!  (2.6.18.2 plus hacks)

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:29:30PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:03:51AM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > 
> > I doubt this is the right solution. It certainly
> > could fix this particular situation but my main
> > point was packets shouldn't get into kernel
> > receive queues with skb->dev not IFF_UP.
> 
> I think you misunderstood.  The device certainly is IFF_UP.  What
> happens is that the multicast spin locks are set up too late:

Could you explain? I can see some inet_rtm_newaddr
interrupted. For me it could be e.g.:

after
vconfig add eth0 9

ip addr add dev eth0.9 ...

before
ip link set dev eth0.9 up

Jarek P.
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